Australia Live

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Australia Live was a four hour telecast, broadcast live on Channel Nine, on January 1 1988 to open Australia's Bicentennial celebrations. The telecast crossed live to locations right across the country to represent a 'typical' day in the life of the Australian people. At each of the locations, Australian television celebrities talked with everyday Australians about their experiences, with the whole event anchored by Clive James, Ray Martin and Jana Wendt from the TCN-9 studios in Sydney. Locations were as diverse as Thursday Island in Queensland, a remote lighthouse in Tasmania, the Mount Lofty Fire Tower near Adelaide, Kings Cross in Sydney, The Lodge in Canberra, Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, and remote Kingoonya in outback South Australia with a population of six. The telecast included pre-recorded messages from world leaders including US President Ronald Regan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Film crews for the event were drawn from Channel Nine, ABC and SBS.

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